Community – Max Patch

The ideas of the collective often get jumbled and the result of that is poor decision making.  In this interactive performance created using Cycling74 Max, I attempt to demonstrate this idea.  Using public domain videos from the C-Span archive, since politicians are by definition the personification of the collective of their respective district, state, or country, many different videos are mashed together into one.

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Max Installation

People would grab a stick that would play a note that is mapped to the distance between a heartbeat.  It’s velocity would change based on the warmth of the user’s hands.  People would then walk around trying to find other’s who would make a chord or have the same note as them.